Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Besides these rooms are two large cloak rooms, one for women and the other for men. In the hall facing the entrance is a large fireplace with recesses for seats, where conversation can be carried on without disturbing readers...
...related that several days since, as one of the '90 ladies from Sage was slowly walking up from town, she was met by several young men, who noticed that she carried a package concealed under her cloak, and as they passed her, she by accident let fall the package. Crash it went on the sidewalk and Courtland cider flowed copiously in all directions, and the maiden fled toward Sage. - Cornell...
...lack of principle in their correspondence may be due to mere thought-lessness. Let us so regard it for the present. If, however, no improvement is seen hereafter, then charity can serve no longer as a cloak for this evil...
...study serves as reading-room, cloak, and lunch room for the fifty-three young women now enjoying the instruction of the Harvard professors. The reading-room of the "Harvard Annex!" Your fancy, unbidden, suggests harmonious colors, inviting easy chairs, a few choice pictures; a happy blending of order and confusion in the details; a wooden mantel, framing a fire-place, and perhaps a bust of Minerva, or, at least, a stuffed owl presiding over it; book-cases filled with all that a student needs to have at hand, leaning in comfortable retirement against the walls; a study. with room enough...
maker, if one were only possessed of an invisible cloak. The coalscuttle which has done duty for three generations of undergraduates is palmed off as "the very last purchis which Mr. Blank made, and he was a real gentleman he was, and behaved like one." Mr. Blank- the real gentleman- the immediate predecessor in one's room, is generally discovered afterwards not to have displayed toward the bed-maker the extraordinary quality with which she persists in crediting him; indeed he very often turns out to have had a very low opinion of that amiable lady's character as developed...